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Free flap neovascularization: Fact or fiction?

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    Zoran M. Arnez

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Arnez, Z.M. Free flap neovascularization: Fact or fiction?. Eur J Plast Surg 26, 3–4 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00238-002-0458-5

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